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Title

Cerae, fumigia, pulvera, benedictiones et exorcismi contra malificia

Call number

Ms. Codex 695
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2487485
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487485

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

16--

Place

Germany

Summary

Prayers (including several litanies) and exorcisms in Latin, with some recipes in German. Table of contents added by a later hand at the beginning of the volume.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Opening rubric: Cera specialissima contra maleficia (p. 1).
   

Extent

112 leaves : 178 x 107 (152 x 91) mm. bound to 182 x 108 mm

Foliation

Paper, 112 leaves; [iv], 1-130, 132-140, [ii], 141-154, [ii], 155-180, 189-192, [ii], 193-203, 203-229, [iii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment (leaf from an earlier missal). Some oxidation of ink.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with two folios added in the front in a second, slightly later hand.

Provenance

• Possible ownership inscription: Dreisch (f. i recto).
   
• Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1970.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Exorcism--Germany--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Litanies
• Prayers
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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